WHICH WAY IS THE FRONT LINE FROM HERE? THE LIFE AND TIME OF TIM HETHERINGTON
This deeply affectionate and totally disarming epilogue to the distinguished photo-journalist Tim Hetherington by Sebastian Junger his friend, colleague and co-director on the Oscar nominated ‘Restropo’ will have you reaching for your box of Kleenex. And quite rightly so. Aside from his inestimable body of work, this devilishly handsome tall rangy Brit ex public schoolboy … Continue reading
Whiplash
19-year-old Andrew Neyman wants to be the next Buddy Rich. This aspiring young drummer who is completely obsessed with his burning ambition has managed to get himself enrolled at the prestigious Shaffer Conservatory of Music in Manhattan, which is ranked No. 1 in the country. Now he is desperate to be recruited into the School’s … Continue reading
WHITE MATERIAL
I finally got to see Clare Dennis’s movie that made nearly all the critics Top Ten Lists last year. It came and went so quickly the first time around, that I blinked and missed it. Same could be said about the multi-layer chaos of this movie’s story that if you blink you miss some potential … Continue reading
WHO ARE YOU POLLY MAGGOO?
What was I doing in 1966 that made me miss seeing William Klein’s surrealist satire on the fashion world ‘Who Are You Polly Maggoo’? I guess better late than never, although after viewing it I realize that like me, the movie has not aged well with time. What the critics back then hailed as a … Continue reading
Who Will Write Our History : the real story of the Warsaw Ghetto
In WW2 when the German Governor of Warsaw in Occupied Poland the city into three areas : one for Germans. another for Poles, and the third for Jews, the infamous Ghetto was born.. It was October 1940 and because the Nazis had also been rounding up all the Jews in surrounding areas, the initial … Continue reading